Pre-Prep Blue Cookbook - Term 2

Pre Prep Blue Recipe Book Term2 2019

Anzac Biscuits

(Austrlaia and New Zealand Army Corps)

You will need

1 cup rolled oats 1 cup plain flour 1 cup sugar 3/4 cup coconut 125g butter 1 tablespoon golden syrup 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 2 tablespoons boiling water

Method:

Combine oats, flour, sugar and coconut in a large bowl. Combine butter and golden syrup in a heatproof jug, microwave until butter is melted. Combine soda and water, add butter mixture, stir into dry ingredients immediately. Place a tablespoon of mixture on lined oven trays, press down lightly. Bake in a preheated oven for 160 degrees for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on trays.

Fruit Salad

Ingredients Watermelon Strawberries

Equipment

Knife

Cutting Board

Apples Grapes

Juicer Bowl

Orange Juice

Wooden Spoon

Method Wash and dry the apples, grapes and strawberries. Chop apple into small pieces, cut grapes in half, hull and slice the strawberries. Dice the watermelon and remove the seeds. Put all the fruit into a large bowl. Juice the orange and pour the juice over the fruit. Gently mix with the wooden spoon to combine. Divide fruit salad into serving bowls and enjoy.

Jam Drops

Ingredients

125g butter, softened

100g (1/2 cup) caster sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

1 egg

190g (1 1/4 cup) self-raising flour

115g (1/3 cup) strawberry or raspberry jam

Method

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line 2 baking trays with non-stick baking

paper. Use an electric beater to beat butter, sugar and vanilla in a medi-

um bowl until pale and creamy. Add the egg and beat until combined.

Sift flour over the butter mixture and stir until combined.

Use lightly floured hands to roll teaspoonful's of mixture into balls. Place

on the prepared trays. Use a lightly floured finger to make an indenta-

tion in the centre of each ball. Spoon 1/2 teaspoon of jam into the centre

of each biscuit.

Bake for 15 minutes, swapping trays halfway through cooking of until the

biscuits are cooked through and light golden. Remove biscuits from the

oven. Set aside on trays for 30 minutes to cool completely.

Coconut Date Energy Balls

Ingredients

1 cup pitted dates 1 1/2 tablespoon coconut butter, softened 1/2 cup rolled oats desiccated coconut for rolling

Method

Pulse dates in a food processor until soft and broken down. Add coconut butter, rolled oats and shredded coconut and process until everything comes together. Roll teaspoon size balls in your hands and then roll in the desiccated coconut to coat. Store in an airtight container in the fridge or eat right away.

Stewed Apples

Today in cooking we made stewed apples.

We peeled, chopped, cored, sliced, cooked, mashed….

Yum Yum!

Nachos

Ingredients

Plain corn chips Cheddar cheese

Equipment

Cheese grater Bowls Microwave oven

Method

Put a large corn chip into each bowl. Grate the cheese and sprinkle it onto the top of the corn chip. Cook in microwave for a few seconds so the cheese can melt. Enjoy eating your crunchy corn chip with warm melted cheese!

Porridge

Today we explored the story of Goldi- locks and the Three Bears.

Not to hot, not too cold …

We made porridge!

Ingredients

Some oats Milk Dash of honey

Citrus Tasting

On the menu

Grapefruit Lemons Limes Oranges

Peel it, eat it Squeeze it, drink it You can even try to bake it

Did you know?

Eating citrus fruit helps keep the doctor away

Hummus Dip

Ingredients

1 can of chickpeas 2 to 4 tablespoon water 2 tablespoon olive oil 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 garlic glove 3/4 teaspoon cumin 1/4 teaspoon salt

Add the chickpeas, water, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, cum- in and salt to a food processor then blend until smooth. Chop up some carrots and celery.

Have a dip!